Ray greets his mother with the friendly form hi, compared to the more distant and formal good afternoon used to the school principal.Finally he refers to his teacher as that bastard and uses a nickname Sootbucket for him, an indication that he is treating his mother as an 12 Chapter 1 What do sociolinguists study?This contrasts with the way he refers to the teacher when talking to the principal, when he uses Mr Sutton.He could have used no address form at all.